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Search for bodies at orphanage

News24 - ‎1 hour ago‎
Newcastle - Police were still combing through the ruins of the Hope in Christ Home orphanage outside Newcastle after 15 people died in the blaze, a spokesperson for the KwaZulu-Natal police confirmed on Tuesday.

Mthethwa and Cwele mislead public about guns: FF Plus

Times LIVE - ‎36 minutes ago‎
The Freedom Front Plus on Tuesday accused Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and national police Commissioner Bheki Cele of misleading the public about firearms.

PICS: Fire continues to devastate Cape

Independent Online - Murray Williams, Esther Lewis - ‎3 hours ago‎
Firefighters are still battling fires in the Boland and the southern Cape on Tuesday as dry conditions and hot weather continue to fuel the blazes.

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US Wants Sanctions In Weeks as Iran Ups Enrichment

New York Times - Parisa Hafezi, Hossein Jaseb - ‎39 minutes ago‎
By REUTERS TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States wanted a UN Security Council resolution "within weeks" to tackle Iran's nuclear programme as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel.

Tymoshenko refuses to concede defeat in Ukraine election

CNN International - Matthew Chance, Mike Sefanov - ‎40 minutes ago‎
Supporters of Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich rally in front of the Central Election Commission in Kiev. Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Incumbent Yulia Tymoshenko refuses to concede defeat in Ukraine's presidential election and plans to demand a ...

Nigerian Parliament Names Acting President

New York Times - Adam Nossiter - ‎51 minutes ago‎
DAKAR, Senegal - The Nigerian Parliament Tuesday voted to make Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the acting president of Africa's most populous nation, and filling a power vacuum that has persisted since President Umaru Yar'Adua's ...

South Africa Should Push for Zimbabwe Vote, MDC Says

BusinessWeek - Franz Wild - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change called on South African negotiators to push President Robert Mugabe to agree to constitutional reform and swift elections.

Lull in Balfour storm

Times LIVE - Sipho Masondo - ‎1 hour ago‎
Siyathemba township in Balfour, Mpumalanga, is quiet this afternoon after the weekend and yesterday's violent service delivery protests.
Balfour protests continue Independent Online

Vice President commends Japanese Government on operations of JICA

Ghana News Agency - ‎3 hours ago‎
Accra, Feb. 8, GNA - Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Monday commended the Japanese Government for regularly posting volunteers under the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) to accelerate Ghana's socio economic development.
VEEP receives Japanese Volunteers in Accra Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

NEC acts on Cape ANC

Independent Online - Clayton Barnes, Bronwynne Jooste - ‎1 hour ago‎
The ANC's entire national executive committee (NEC) has been sent to work with the party's branches in the Western Cape with immediate effect to try to snatch the province from the DA.

Cope welcomes ABI settlement

Times LIVE - ‎4 hours ago‎
The Congress of the People has welcomed the wage settlement at cooldrink bottlers Amalgamated Beverage Industries (ABI). The dispute had been characterised by violence and acerbic tensions in the townships between strikers, non-strikers and unemployed ...

W Cape taxi driver shot dead

News24 - ‎1 hour ago‎
Cape Town - A taxi driver shot dead in Vrygrond, in the Western Cape, on Tuesday, is the second person killed in taxi violence in the area, the provincial transport department said.
'Legal operators targeted' Independent Online

Toyota recall: Your comments

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Toyota has announced the recall of about 436000 hybrid vehicles worldwide, including its latest Prius model, to fix brake problems.

'Drive without a licence'

Independent Online - ‎6 hours ago‎
It seems there are circumstances under which you can drive without a licence - but you have to prove you are part of this undoubtedly frustrated group South Africans.

SA unemployment rate falls slightly in Q4

Creamer Media's Engineering News - Esmarie Swanepoel - ‎1 hour ago‎
An estimated 89 000 jobs were created during the fourth quarter of 2009, as signs of stability in the labour market emerged, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Tuesday.

Edition 4, Tuesday 9th February

The South African Star - ‎2 hours ago‎
Independent Newspapers South Africa, has gone digital in a new and exciting way. Imagine the convenience of having the Star delivered directly to your computer every day.
Edition 4, Tuesday 9th February The South African Star

Endeavour astronauts checking for foam damage

The Tech Herald - Stevie Smith - ‎8 hours ago‎
As the space shuttle Endeavour steadily makes its way toward the International Space Station, NASA has indicated that the shuttle's crew are in the process of checking the vehicle for possible damage sustained during ...

New Pagani Super Cars Spied in South Africa

MotorCrave.com - Chris Weiss - ‎18 hours ago‎
Some spy photos of two upcoming Pagani C9 supercar prototypes undergoing road testing in South Africa have surfaced on the Web. Unfortunately, the photog in question only managed to grab shots of the rear ends, but when we're dealing with ...

Google to bring status updates to Gmail?

TechRadar UK - Patrick Goss - ‎16 minutes ago‎
Google is set to announce a new push into social networking features, with suggestions that its Gmail webmail service will be bringing a 'status-like' addition where users can update friends on what they are up to.

Michael Jackson's Family Reacts To Conrad Murray's Manslaughter Charge

MTV.com - Gil Kaufman - ‎49 minutes ago‎
"He's lying. He's guilty. Nobody was there but him," Jackson's mother, Katherine, told the assembled media while leaving court.

VIDEO: Lekker 'zef' music is our Antwoord to Eminem

Tonight - ‎7 hours ago‎
An Afrikaans rap group has taken the Internet by storm with explicit in-your-face lyrics and provocative performances. A website set up by the group, Die Antwoord (The Answer), has received millions of visits in the past four days, crashing the server ...

'Don't jail Barbie'

iAfrica.com - ‎33 minutes ago‎
Cezanne Visser should not go to jail even though there is no certainty she will not commit another crime, a forensic criminologist Eon Sonnekus told the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Visser 'not remorseful' Independent Online

S.Africa thrash India in first Test

AFP - ‎1 hour ago‎
NAGPUR, India - South Africa thumped India by an innings and six runs despite a fighting century by Sachin Tendulkar on the fourth day of the first Test on Tuesday to go 1-0 up in the two-match series.

SuperSport under pressure

Independent Online - Nkareng Matshe - ‎55 minutes ago‎
SuperSport United have led the Absa Premiership table for 17 consecutive weeks but the next five days could see their position at the top coming under severe threat.

Pele, Beckenbauer pick African teams for 2010

Times LIVE - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Football greats Pele and Franz Beckenbauer have both backed African sides to prosper at this summer's World Cup in South Africa, when the tournament visits the continent for the very first time.

Arrest in medical waste case

Times LIVE - Sally Evans - ‎15 hours ago‎
Police made their first arrest in the investigation into South Africa's biggest medical waste-dumping scandal, uncovered by the Green Scorpions last year.
Farmer nabbed for medical waste BuaNews Online (press release)

South Africa: Extra Staff to Check Health of World Cup Visitors

AllAfrica.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
Johannesburg - THE Department of Health is training extra port health service workers to screen visitors at all entry points into SA during the Soccer World Cup in June and July.
Final touches to 2010 health plans BuaNews Online (press release)

Two new swine flu cases spark warnings in Tasmania

ABC Online - ‎9 hours ago‎
The Health Department says new cases of swine flu should act as a warning for parents to vaccinate their children. (ABC News: Damien Larkins) There have been two new cases of swine flu in Tasmania as authorities prepare to vaccinate 350000 people ...
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